I told a normie that I don’t like D&D and they took that to mean that I don’t like any TTRPGs at all

please enshittify faster, Hasbro. I need your stranglehold over TTRPG culture to end

@kasdeya give them a break, they're doing the best they can (to enshittify as quickly as yhey can )

@kasdeya

I've been having to explain that D&D is not ALL tabletop roleplaying for over forty years now. As for the idea of sophisticated, combat-avoidant, character-based roleplaying...it's discouragingly hard to get non-gamers to understand that. Hell, even most GAMERS don't really get it!

@Quasit yes omgg I honestly don’t understand why someone would want to mix their roleplaying with tactical turn-based heavily gamified RPG combat. like it’s totally valid that people do that and they seem to really enjoy it - but what I especially don’t understand is why that specific combination of things is so overwhelmingly popular that people have trouble mentally separating the roleplaying from the gamified combat rules

like imagine if everyone exclusively played a TTRPG called Budgets & Businesses, which was just Monopoly except with roleplaying. and if you tried to explain to them that you liked the roleplaying but not the Monopoly part they would look at you confused like you were saying you wanted to play B&B without the B&B

@kasdeya @Quasit yeah i much prefer just straight up roleplaying without the strict rules when doing tabletop stuff

@wyatt @Quasit yeah I’m ngl I have problems with authority and I’m not okay with having to defer to a DM or a rulebook to learn how I’m “allowed” to roleplay or what my character is “allowed” to do or be

for example during one game I had a clever solution to a problem that involved using a Bellringer’s knot and the DM said that my character wouldn’t know what that was because of her class, so I wasn’t allowed to tie it :/ the fact that the DM is allowed to make unilateral declarations like that without checking with any other player is IMO just gross